Abigail, a tree expert, who worked on controlling the disease in Sussex, has set up a joint group of volunteers and staff from the two trusts, to protect the remaining trees.

“The presence of these elm trees on the island is a complete mystery, but it is wonderful to see established elms such as there used to be all over the country,” said Abigail.

Reuben Hawkwood, NT head ranger on the Poole Harbour island said: “We are very lucky that these elms were spotted in 2004 as it has given us the opportunity to put measures in place to monitor and protect them.”

Two trees on the island were claimed by the disease in 2009, which wiped out nearly all the mature elms in the country during the 1970s.

It takes the form of a fungus which spreads up the tree through the bark, affecting the water system right up to the leaf canopy.

Comments

paul.p
4:52pm Thu 11 Oct 12

After recently visiting a website on the effects of DED and cultivar produced I've come to the conclusion that it would indeed be cheaper to replace all of the trees with resistant strains of Elm. Getting someone to inject the tree once a year and monitor it seems like money and time wasted.

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estry/ded.pdf

After recently visiting a website on the effects of DED and cultivar produced I've come to the conclusion that it would indeed be cheaper to replace all of the trees with resistant strains of Elm. Getting someone to inject the tree once a year and monitor it seems like money and time wasted.
www.iowadnr.gov/port
als/idnr/uploads/for
estry/ded.pdfpaul.p

After recently visiting a website on the effects of DED and cultivar produced I've come to the conclusion that it would indeed be cheaper to replace all of the trees with resistant strains of Elm. Getting someone to inject the tree once a year and monitor it seems like money and time wasted.

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